Improvement in egg-carriers



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Improvement in Egg-Carrier s.

Patented Nov. 12,1872.

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WILLIAM D. TABER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HISRIGHT TO PHILIP P. JOSEF AND EDWARD STRIBEB, OF SAME PLACE.

EMPROVEMENT IN EGG-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,937, dated November12,1872; antedated November 9, 1872.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM D. TABER, of the city of Bufialo, in thecounty of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain Improvementsin Egg-Carriers, of which the following is a specification:

The first part of my invention relates to the form and method ofconstruction of the sides or walls of the pockets or compartments forholding the separate eggs, and has for its object greater safety,economy of space, lightness, strength, durability, and cheapness, thanhas hitherto been attained. The second part of my invention relates tothe method of forming the bottoms and tops of said pockets and thecombination of the same with the said sides or walls in order tosecure'the objects before mentioned.

These improvements are applicable to carriers in which the eggs stand ina vertical position upon their ends in their pockets. The accompanyingdrawing represents them as applied to the class of carriers patented byPhilip I. Josef, April 6th, 1869, in which there are trays havingpockets on both their faces, each pocket of sufficient depth to inclosea little less than half the egg, the other half being enclosed by thenext tray above it.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tray, showing the upper series ofpockets in the same; the under series are directly opposite them andexactly like them. Fig. 2 is a plan of said tray. Fig. 3 is an elevationthrough the section of A B of Fig. 2.

The sidewalls of thepoekets are formed by the slats orthin strips ofwood, straw-board, orother sufficiently flexible, soft, or elasticmaterial A B O, crossing each other at an angle of sixty degrees, so asto form pockets with six equal sides. These cross strips are, bypreference, fastened together or notched in at their intersections bythe common method of halving down, B and 0 being each cut down onehalftheir width from opposite edges A about three-fourths and B and Gone-fourth at their intersections with A. D is a thin sheet of wood,composed of one or more layers between the upper and under series ofpockets, constituting the bottom of the upper and the top of the underseries. E is the hoop of the tray. A B (J in Fig. 3 represent the stripsforming the side walls of the lower series, and are exactly like A B Oin the upper series. F F are narrow rings fastened to the inside edgesof the tray-hoop E to secure the ends of the strips in their places inthe tray. 1

For the top and bottom of the box or crate in which these trays are tobe placed, halftrays are to be used-that is, trays with only the upperseries of pockets for the bottom, and

those with only the lower series for the top of the box or crate.

I do not claim as any part of my invention trays with upper and lowerdepressions or pockets to contain half the egg, for I am aware that thatis the invention of P. P. Josef. Nor do I limit my claim to suchpockets, for they may also be made after my plan to take in the entireegg, as in the carrier of Stevens. Nor do I limit my claim on the thinsheet D as only applicable to the form of pocket herein described, forit is evident that it would answer the purpose for which it is intended,viz., to support the eggs which stand upon it, and to keep the eggsbelow it from contact with those above it, whether such pockets arehexagonal, rectangular, or of any other shape. Nor do I claim theconnecting the strips by halving, as that is an old and well-knowndevice.

\Vhat I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

scribed.

WILLIAM D. TABER.

Witnesses V A. TWICHELL, H. A. CLARK-

